Nance v. State’s Empirical Analysis
2000
Citation profile
4 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 56 later decisions — most recently June 2025 · most notably Chapman v. State (2002), Ledford v. State (2011)
4 federal appellate · 52 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on Jackson v. Virginia · Wainwright v. Witt · Harris v. New York · Estelle v. Smith · Buchanan v. Kentucky
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 56 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“[W]hen a defendant must submit to a court-ordered mental health examination because he wishes to present expert mental health testimony at his trial, the State expert may only testify in rebuttal to the testimony of the defense expert or to rebut the testimony of the defendant himself. To the extent Hittson v. State authorized a State expert to testify in response to lay witness testimony that the defendant was remorseful, it is overruled.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.